n a year of sorry national spectacles, none seems more bitter or pointless than the feud that broke out last month between the Trump administration and the family of Sergeant La David Johnson, one of four U.S. soldiers killed in Niger during an ambush by Islamist militants. The president's clumsy handling of a condolence call to Johnson's widow, the unprincipled disclosure of his words to the media by U.S. congresswoman Frederica Wilson, the false charges leveled against Wilson by White House chief of staff John Kelly, the congresswoman's gratuitous accusation of racism as a factor in the administration's actions—no one emerged unsullied from the conflict, in which Johnson's sacrifice for his country was steadily obscured by bickering over who had dishonored his memory. Continue reading>>ByJ.R. Jones